ship building vs building

ship building and building both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ship building	Yes	No	No	No
building	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, building is a hypernym of ship building; that is, building is a word with a broader meaning than ship building:

Other hypernyms of ship building include construction.

ship building (noun)	building (noun)
the construction of ships	the act of constructing something
	the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
	a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
	the occupants of a building